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Paper illustration of Three Horizons with its method-specific working model.
Business Strategy
Three Horizons
Paper illustration for Option Framing.
Decision Making
Option Framing
Stakeholder Mapping
Facilitation
Stakeholder Mapping
Purposedifferent
Three Horizons helps clarify strategic options across different timeframes. It compares strengths, risks, market logic, and investment choices, and captures the result as a horizon map, portfolio view, and initiatives per horizon.In early decisions, alternatives are often still vague, incomplete, or blended together. Option Framing brings every possibility into a comparable form and makes visible which variant actually fits the question.When an initiative depends on many people, interests, and power dynamics, Stakeholder Mapping systematically orders the environment. It shows who influences, who is affected, and where relationship management or safeguarding matters first.
Complexitydifferent
MediumMediumLow
Timedifferent
Halbtags-Workshop, dann iterativ45-120 min60–90 min
Participantsdifferent
3-123-82-8
Formatdifferent
WorkshopWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Horizon map, Portfolio view, Initiatives per horizon, Resource planOption Frames, Assumption Notes, Comparable Shortlist, Decision InputsStakeholder Map, Engagement Plan, Risk Notes
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StrategyInnovationPortfolioForesight
OptionsDecision framingStrategyComparison
StakeholdersAlignmentFacilitationChange
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Facilitation
Alignment Mapping
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Facilitation
3-Circle Venn Diagram
Paper illustration for Decision Framing Workshop.
Decision Making
Decision Framing Workshop
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Business Strategy
McKinsey 7S